obama care was signed into law 1,256 days ago. and since then, there's been user problem after user problem after user problem. regarding healthcare.gov, your deputy administrator for consumer information gary cohen testified one month ago right where you're sitting that, and this i quote, cms has worked hard to test the infrastructure that will allow americans to enroll in coverage confidently, simply, and securely, end quote. yet, according to "forbes" and "the wall street journal," you told them that you needed five years of construction and one year of testing. the program has crashed and burned at least three times. the user is still having problems. it's been down the whole time you've been testifying. the system is down at this moment. my question, ma'am, is very simple. when did you know these changes were going down, a month, a day a quarter? and did you tell the president what you knew? >> sir, i was informed that we were ready to launch on october 1st. the contractors who we had as our private partners told us and told